I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

When you want to change the world, have you changed yourself lately?

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

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Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Truth-telling by a leader can legitimate truth-telling at every level.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless